May 2025

Local musicians gather for final RVR Artist Salon of the season

Last week, the YES! House welcomed the final River Valley Ripple Artist of the season, Mike Gill, who hosted the artist salon “Music Theory in Motion”. Gill shared his knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale in an interactive way, inviting guests to bring their own instruments to play along. The group also practiced a call and response method before Gill provided a live music set. The RVR Artist Residency program is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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“…what must I do to be saved?” Acts 16:30b

There’s a great story in Act 16. The Apostles Paul and Silas end up prisoners in Philippi for preaching the Gospel. (There’s way more to why they were imprisoned, but you can read that part.) So, even though they were beaten and imprisoned, they prayed and sang hymns, which led to a miraculous earthquake that shakes the prison. When the prison shakes, the doors are opened freeing all the prisoners. The jailer, who knows the seriousness of being the guard on duty when there are escapees, witnesses this and he is terrified, and pulls his sword to take his own life. But Paul and Silas speak out quickly that they are all there—no one has escaped. It’s so astonishing to the jailer, that it leads to the jailer asking, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

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Hot weekend ahead

We enjoyed one of the nicest Memorial Day weekends in recent memory! Early on there were some indications of a slight chance of rain impacting the area, but it all tracked to our south on Memorial Day.

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Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council: Tables in Motion…

This week, two of our new interns (Abby and Autumn) attended GAAC’s biweekly meeting. Already, they have been hard at work: they’re starting the gallery a TikTok, streamlining our Facebook and Instagram posts, designing eye-catching posters and signage, and (according to a smiling Tamara) “dragging us into the 21st century, kicking and screaming.”

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